Awards

2023

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Killam Teaching Prize
Margo Seltzer UBC

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
ASPLOS Distinguished Artifact Award
Finn Hackett, Ivan Beschastnikh, Matthew Do, Renato Costa, Shayan Hosseini ASPLOS 2023
Killam Research Prize in Science
Cristina Conati Faculty of Science
Outstanding Research Award SIGSOFT 2023
Gail Murphy SIGSOFT 2023
Journal of Computer Languages Best Paper Runner Up (COLA)
David Shepherd, Felipe Fronchetti, Igor Scaliante Wiese, Linxi Li, Mauricio Soto, Nico Ritschel, Raoul Jetley, Reid Holmes Journal of Computer Languages (COLA)
2022

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM Distinguished Member
Joanna McGrenere ACM
ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award
Alex Summers ACM SIGPLAN (SPLASH) 2022
Best Paper Award
Arpan Gujarati IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2022)
IEEE Fellow
Karon MacLean IEEE
IEEE Fellow
Tamara Munzner IEEE
SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award
Gail Murphy SIGSOFT
Best Paper Award
Bingyao (Jerry) Wang, Margo Seltzer EMSOFT
IEEE VIS Test of Time Award
Tamara Munzner IEEE VIS
2022 Educational Data Mining Test of Time award
Cristina Conati Educational Data Mining Conference
ACM SIGOPS HotStorage 2022 Intel Best Paper Award
Reto Achermann HotStorage Workshop 2022
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Honourable Mention
Michael Yin, Robert Xiao DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2022
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Honourable Mention Award
Dongwook Yoon, Ning Ma, Oloff C. Biermann DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2022
SIGGRAPH Academy Member
Michiel van de Panne SIGGRAPH Academy
SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
Michiel van de Panne SIGGRAPH
Distinguished Paper Award
Yanze Li International Conference on Software Engineering
IEEE Senior Member
Kwang Moo Yi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Google Research Award
Mathias Lécuyer Google Research
SIAM Fellow
Chen Greif SIAM
Killam Research Prize
Mark Schmidt, Raymond Ng UBC
ACM Fellow
Alla Sheffer ACM
CRC Chair
Karon MacLean CRC

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Excellence in Service
Laura Selander UBC Faculty of Science
CS Faculty Mentoring Award
Steve Wolfman UBC Computer Science
CS Team Award
Alice Zhou, Celine Francis, Giuliana Villegas, Lexine Atrill UBC Computer Science
Fostering a Collegial Environment
Taryn Jung UBC Computer Science
Going Above and Beyond Award
Tim Li UBC Computer Science
Supporting Research
Ali Nasseri, Lara Hall UBC Computer Science
Supporting Teaching/Educational Programs
Anthony Winstanley, Koon Ming Lau, Moyra Ditchfield, Patrick Lai, Sean Godel, Tim Li, Vivian Leung UBC Computer Science
Maria Klawe Service Award 2022
Paulette Koronkevich UBC Computer Science
Service Awards for Graduate Students
Nichole Boufford, Paul Bucci, Rubia Reis Guerra UBC Computer Science

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Faculty Teaching Awards
Alex Summers, Elisa Baniassad, Felix Grund, Ivan Beschastnikh, Kwang Moo Yi, Varada Kolhatkar UBC Computer Science
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Braxton Hall, Devyani McLaren, Dylan Green, Finn Hackett, Jordan Lovrod, Sang-Wha Sien UBC Computer Science
Undergraduate TA Awards
Benny Wong, Emilia Hidalgo, Erica Choi, Jason Hsu, Jingqi Zhang, Katherine Liang, Mazen Kotb, Michael de Marco, Ming Cheng Jiang, Nuket Baydogan, Rose Loftus UBC Computer Science
UBC Killam Teaching Prize 2021
Oluwakemi Ola UBC

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Academic Award of Excellence 2022
Sherwyn D'Souza UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022
Michelle Langlois UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022
Esteban Margaron UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022
Alexander Mountain UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022
Kasra Kamal UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022
Jingze Dong UBC Computer Science
Academic Award of Excellence 2022
Michael Liu UBC Computer Science
Accenture Leadership Award
Alexander Steele Accenture Inc.
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science
James Shaw UBC Computer Science
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science
Lily Lin Bit Quill Technologies Award
Broadridge Financial Solutions Award for Women in Computer Science
Brianna Dungate Broadridge Financial Solutions
Greer Family Scholarship 2022
Floria Gu, Sophie Greenwood UBC Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Michael Liu UBC Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize  
Sepand Dyanatkar Motaghed UBC Computer Science
Project to Product Award in Computer Science
Kara Deane Tasktop Technologies
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science
Christy Lo UBC Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science
Charley Cai, Joice Tang, Kasra Kamal, Linh Tran, Luis Bolanos, Patrick Lee, Rebecca Lin UBC Computer Science
Student Service Awards for Undergraduates
Bryce Wilson, Chloe Curry, Eric Yan, Gokce Dilek, Jamie Polintan, Jerry Hall, Jossie Yan, Leonard Wang, Mike Ju, Shu Ting Hu, Stephanie Chen UBC Computer Science
VanHacks Award in Computer Science
Edric Antoine VanHack
2021

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Best Paper Award
Arpan Gujarati IEEE QRS 2021
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
Raymond Ng Royal Society of Canada
Impact Recognition Award
Ashish Chopra, Dongwook Yoon, Ivan Beschastnikh, Morgan Mo, Samuel Dodson Computer-supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
Prominent Paper Award
Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown AIJ Prominent Paper Award
AITO Test of Time Award
Gregor Kiczales AITO
Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Blair Spearman Doctoral Prize
Chris Liaw Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS)
Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science
David Ewart, Rebecca Lin, Roark Zhang UBC Computer Science
2021 Best Dissertation Award
Arpan Gujarati ACM SIGBED
2021 CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award
Tamara Munzner Graphics Interface (CHCCS/SCDHM)
ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan SIGMOD
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE)
Braxton Hall, Felix Grund, Nick C. Bradley, Reid Holmes, Shaiful Chowdhury International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Amazon Research Award
Alex Summers Amazon
Amazon Research Award
Kevin Leyton-Brown Amazon Research
Best Paper Award for AISTATS 2021
Frederik Kunstner, Mark Schmidt AISTATS
Distinguished Scholar Award
Kevin Leyton-Brown UBC
Elected Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Margo Seltzer AAAS
Killam Research Fellowship
Mark Schmidt UBC
Outstanding Paper of 2020
Jeff Clune International Society of Artificial Life
SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan ACM SIGMOD
Killam Accelerator Research Fellowships
Leonid Sigal UBC
ACM Fellow
Kevin Leyton-Brown Association of Computing Machinery
CS-Can/Info-Can 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award
Kellogg Booth CS-Can/Info-Can
ISAL Award for Outstanding Publication of 2020
Jeff Clune

Service

Award Recipient(s) Organization
2021 FoS Excellence in Service Award
Constance Wun, Joël Pittet UBC Faculty of Science
Distinguished Reviewer Award
Alex Summers OOPSLA
Maria Klawe Service Award 2021
Ayman Azhar, Kiki Hsieh UBC Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize  
Daphne Liu UBC Computer Science
Student Service Awards for Graduate Students
Paul Bucci, Paulette Koronkevish, Swati Goswami UBC Computer Science
Student Service Awards for Volunteers
Chenyuan (Coco) Wu, Christy Lo, Cindy Ou Yang, Cody Gagnon, Ervin Ng, Natalie Chen, Sepand Dyanatker UBC Computer Science

Teaching

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Ali Mohammed Mehr, Amir Tootooni, Basima Spindari, Lily Bryant, Nam Hee Kim, Nicholas Hu, Paul Bucci, Preeti Vyas, Rubinder Nagi, Shivam Thukral, Tianxin Tao UBC Computer Science
Outstanding Teaching Awards for Faculty
Anne Condon, Ed Knorr, Helge Rhodin, Leonid Sigal, Paul Carter, Robert Xiao, Steve Wolfman UBC Computer Science
Undergraduate TA Awards
Benjamin Chang, Brooke Dai, Burcu Gorgulicten, Carmen Xu, Chantelle Twynstra, Charles Lake, Kean Wah Wong, Mara Solen, Phillip Mark, Rebecca Xie, William Walcher UBC Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement

Award Recipient(s) Organization
Academic Award of Excellence 2021
David Louie, Devyani McLaren, Elbert Chuang, Hayden McTavish, Quintin Muncaster, Seif Ghazi, Sherry Zhang UBC Computer Science
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science
Brianna Dungate, Mara Solen UBC Computer Science
Greer Family Scholarship 2021
David Louie, Victor Wang UBC Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
David Louie         UBC Computer Science
Visier Service Awards in Computer Science
Hyesun An, Joice Tang UBC Computer Science
Governor General's Academic Medal
Fangzhao Zhang Governor General of Canada
2020

Research

Award Recipient(s) Organization
ACM Distinguished Member
Cristina Conati ACM
IEEE Fellow
Alla Sheffer IEEE
Best Paper Award, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation
Hung Yu Ling, Michiel van de Panne, Nam Hee Kim, Zhaoming Xie ACM SIGGRAPH
Best Student Paper Award
Cristina Conati, Shane D. Sims ACM ICMI 2020